Are you ready to take your warehouse career to the next level? We're searching for a dynamic and experienced Senior Warehouse Operative. If you're passionate about maintaining top-notch quality, ensuring the safety of your team, and driving performance to new heights, we want to hear from you. With your background in warehousing and a strong desire to achieve goals while leading a small team, you could be the missing piece we've been searching for. Join us in shaping the future of our warehouse operations!
Working in a safe, accurate and efficient manner, you will be carrying out standard warehouse operations and acting as lead warehouse person in the area of responsibility. You will also be required to deputise NDC team leader responsibilities at times of holiday, sickness or absence.
This is a fantastic opportunity for either an experienced operative looking to make their first steps into leadership, or someone with some leadership experience looking for an opportunity to upskill and progress their career.
Key responsibilities include:
- Responsibility for the quality of work produced and for resource planning and utilisation
- Responsibility for all health and safety in the warehouse area and ensuring compliance with a set of operating procedures, using computer and manual systems to achieve agreed operational targets
- Analysing and resolving standard operational problems, including use of the Warehouse Management/SAP Systems
- Responsibility for staff, performance and absence management and the ability to deputise for the team leader in their absence
- Supporting the warehouse team leader with continuous improvement projects
- Responsibility of supervision, workload, holiday, sickness/absence management and conducting staff performance reviews
On top of working for the UK’s leading integrated health and safety experts, you’ll also receive:
- A starting salary of £27,456 plus up to 10% annual bonus
- 32 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays, plus the option to purchase up to 5 more days
- 2 fully paid Community Volunteering days every year
- An excellent pension and Life Assurance scheme
- A huge range of high street retailer discounts to help with cost of living via MyArco Perks
- Free, 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to our Learning Management System, to support your personal and career development
- Long-term service awards – we’re proud to have employees who have worked for us for 40 years
About you
The ideal Senior Warehouse Operative (Line Leader) will be/have:
- Basic IT skills and good levels of literacy and numeracy
- Previous warehouse experience
- Knowledge of health & safety
- Product knowledge including pack quantities and quality and in-depth knowledge of WMS/SAP systems
- A strong desire to achieve departmental goals and look for continuous improvement
- Organisational skills along with excellent accuracy and the ability to instil this as a key measure within the department